Event Details

Ratio

October 12-13, 2017

To ensure all students succeed academically, champion teachers deliver instruction that maximizes Ratio, both the number of students who actively participate and the depth of the thinking they do. Achieving rigor for all students is essential for opening the doors of university and career. Join Doug Lemov and his team to prepare to deliver high quality training on Ratio.

In the past year, we’ve learned so much from studying how great teachers build Ratio that we’ve expanded our one day workshop into two full days. The workshop examines in depth three pathways teachers can follow to increase breadth of participation and depth of thinking: Writing, Discussion, and Questioning. Participants will leave equipped to train teachers on how to achieve the twin goals of all students participating fully and all students thinking deeply.

YOU WILL GAIN:

A framework for analyzing student engagement in a classroom—Participation Ratio and Think Ratio.

An understanding of the critical role of knowledge–the content prerequisite–in achieving Ratio

Practice activities that will broaden teachers’ capacity to increase breadth and depth of participation in their classrooms

WE WILL ANALYZE AND PRACTICE:

Teach Like a Champion 2.0 techniques to increase Ratio through writing: Everybody Writes, Art of the Sentence, Show Call.

Teach Like a Champion 2.0 techniques to increase Ratio through discussion: Habits of Discussion, Turn and Talk, Batch Process.

Attendees who opt to license the materials will receive the video clips discussed at the workshop, as well as additional training materials, including:

Full description of all techniques, methods, and practice activities covered in the training

PowerPoint deck used in the workshop

Talking points for each video clip

Additional clips with complete talking points

Lesson plans for school-wide and individual PD activities to help leaders train teachers

Aligned coaching tools and other materials to maximize teacher development

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:

Our workshops are a “Train the Trainer” model. We prepare instructional leaders and school leadership teams to deliver excellent training on Teach Like a Champion 2.0 techniques. Schools typically send a team of two to five instructional leaders and teachers in order to have several key team members responsible for turnkeying the work back at their campuses.

Attendance is by invitation only. If you know of another school or organization that may be interested, please send us their contact information (tlac@uncommonschools.org) and we will reach out to them.